Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
More Michel de Montaigne Quotes
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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My trade and art is to live.
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A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
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